Bill Text: CT HB05522 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Making A Technical Change To A Statute Concerning The Office Of State Ethics.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-15 - Public Hearing 03/19 [HB05522 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05522-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5522
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 2116
		*02116_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT MAKING A TECHNICAL CHANGE TO A STATUTE CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF STATE ETHICS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 1-82 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(e) No person shall take or threaten to take official action against an individual for such individual's disclosure of information to the board or the general counsel, ethics enforcement officer or staff of the Office of State Ethics under the provisions of this part or section 1-101nn. After receipt of information from an individual under the provisions of this part or section 1-101nn, the Office of State Ethics shall not disclose the identity of such individual without such individual's consent unless the Office of State Ethics determines that such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of an investigation. No person shall be subject to civil liability for any good faith disclosure that such person makes to the [commission] Office of State Ethics.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	1-82(e)

Statement of Purpose:

To delete an obsolete reference to the State Ethics Commission.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]